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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
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- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) - Bradford lass -
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Some nice charity shop finds.
Photo of two vintage Penguin paperbacks on a table: Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford and The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen.
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This Halloween @jasonbbernard.bsky.social and I are Regine and Bozworth ❤️ #iyknk #frightnight2 @juliecarmen3.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Accidental @scarfolk.bsky.social
Photo of an ad in a magazine. The header, in white text against a dark image of a sofa and some curtains, reads "Don't let your curtains kill you".
October 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Borrowed this from the library for my husband @jasonbbernard.bsky.social and very much recommend it for those with #ADHD and their partners/families. Accessible and to the point graphic novel format with easy to action tips.
A photo of the book titled The Mini ADHD Coach by Alice Gendron.
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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We've spent most of today packing Peripheral Minimal orders, overseen by Ariel. Still lots of great stuff available in the sale here: www.peripheralminimal.com/page/sale

#synthwave #darkwave #postpunk #industrial #noise #krautrock #minimalsynth
September 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Perfect lazy Sunday viewing. Starring Linda Blair, based on a book by Lois Duncan, directed by Wes Craven 👍
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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He's done a sterling job with it for many years, but the time has come for my husband @jasonbbernard.bsky.social to close Peripheral Minimal Records. Huge sale now on at peripheralminimal.com 👇 #synth #minimalsynth #electronicmusic #goth #newwave #postpunk
Black and white and red advert advertising a closing down sale of up to 70% off at peripheralminimal.com.
August 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Karswell is helping me to implement last year's student suggestions for my History of Intoxication module. #catsky #drinkhistory
Photo of a black cat laid on the floor on top of a large sheet of paper, which contains writing in black marker pen. The writing is bullet pointed suggestions and comments such as "less prep time in Term 2".
August 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The blurb on this copy of Elizabeth von Armin's Vera notes that it "inspired" Du Maurier's Rebecca, and I have to say that is putting it mildly. A very dark book, and a very good one.
Photo of a hand holding a paperback book: Vera by Elizabeth von Armin. The cover is dark and depicts a woman in Edwardian dress silhouetted against a high window, with long drapes and patterned wallpaper at each side of her. The background of the photo is a garden, blurred.
August 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Popped in to Notting Hill Comic Exchange today, and found this interesting little collection of #scifi short stories, one of which is by W. Grey Walter of the Burden Neurological Institute. Did he write any more sci-fi, I wonder... #histpsych
Photo of a paperback book titled The Expert Dreamers: Science Fiction Stories by Scientists, edited by Frederik Pohl.
July 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Reviewing this at the moment and highly recommend it: The Sleep Room by Jon Stock, about William Sargant, Ewen Cameron, MKULTRA, and a lot more. The power Sargant wielded over his patients was absolutely shocking, and his attention to medical ethics perhaps even more so. #histpsych
Photo of a hardback book on a desk, called The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock. The cover is black, white, and red, with a half portrait image of William Sargant looking directly at the viewer.
July 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Good to see issue 1 of the brand new Agonist Sounds by Richard Stevenson, though not all copies come with a complimentary Mortimer. #noise #noiselife

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Photo of a zine on a sofa, with a black and white cat sat next to it and looking just off camera.
June 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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The audience has just increased by two. Really sorry, @britishlibrary.bsky.social, but they haven't bought their own tickets.
Photo of a garden deck and a table with a laptop on it. A black cat is sat on the table in front of the laptop and a black and white cat is standing on the floor.
June 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Spending the day in the garden listening to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Gardens and Empires conference. Fantastic keynote to start from @advollyr.bsky.social! #gardensandempires
Photo of a pink covered notebook containing handwritten notes. In the background is a laptop on an outside table, and a garden chair. We can see the lines of the garden behind in blurry focus.
June 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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...I also have a list of films and books I need to go back to or seek out, because the act of indexing has led me to read about something I never normally would have, or reappraise something - like Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak! #scifi /2
Photo of a desktop covered in post it notes and a pen, with a hardback copy of Curt Siodmak's book Donovan's Brain taking up the main part of the image.
June 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Is this ... supposed to impress me into paying for Premium membership? Because no thank you, this makes me furious.
Screenshot of an email from academia.edu, saying "An AI created a podcast of your paper." There is a link underneath encouraging me to click through to this podcast, made out of a book review for the Reviews in History site.
June 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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So close to Murrain. #NigelKneale
Screenshot of a Scrabble app with the letters available to use being M, U, R, R, A, blank, and M.
June 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Still from Ghost World in which two girls are sat at a table in a diner looking bored as a third girl, very emotive, stands and talks to them.
May 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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If you're near @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in the next two weeks, please pop in to see the exhibition by @imperialmed.bsky.social students on the BSc Medical Sciences with Humanities, Philosophy and Law! You can also view their creations online: hplshow.wordpress.com ##medhums #meded
An exhibition poster depicting a stylized gallery wall covered in leaf design wallpaper, with four gold frames mounted on it. The frames contain a collage of a heart inside a book, an embroidered piece of a cage covered in flowers, a black and white photograph of a woman in old-fashioned dress holding up a transparency of an anatomical woman figure, and the bottom half of a poster about syphilis in the army. The text reads: "ReView. 7 to 22 May. Blyth Gallery, Level 5 Sherfield Building [Imperial South Kensington campus]. An exhibition of artwork by students on the BSc Medical Sciences with Humanities, Philosophy and Law."
May 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Me and @jasonbbernard.bsky.social are antique fair-ing today, come find us in the Corn Hall if you're in #Cirencester!
Photo of a table top covered with vintage tins and medical equipment. Photo of two vintage sewing cases and a wooden glass-topped box containing various antiques. Photo of a tabletop covered with small collectables such as compact mirrors and tins. Photo of a tabletop covered in vintage tins, medical equipment, and art tools.
May 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Book fair #scifi purchases, including the Four Square version of Simak's The Night of the Puudly.
Photo of a hamd holding a paperback book with an abstract blue and yellow cover, The Night of the Puudly by Clifford Simak. Photo of 3 paperback books: The Time of Infinity by August Derleth, World's Best Science Fiction 1966, and C.M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons and other stories.
April 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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A full day of listening to papers at the Literatures & Medicines online symposium feels like such a massive treat in the middle of my peak marking season. #histmed
Photo of a desk with a pile of books on it, a glass of vitamin C orange water, a coffee cup, and an open A4 notebook with a blank page. A pen is resting on the middle of the page.
April 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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My author copy of Time and Alcohol: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere!, containing a chapter written with Graham Harding on #c19 tippling, just arrived 😊 [Usual caveats about the extortionate price of academic books, but please use via your library if possible, etc.] #drinkhistory
Photo of a book lying on top of a yellow corduroy cushion. The book is titled Time and Alcohol: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere! and is edited by Peter J. Howland. The cover is plain with the title etc. on a white band in the middle and the rest of the cover is a green colour. Photo of a book page displaying the chapter title: Nipping and Tippling: How 'Petty but Perpetual Drinking' Caused Moral Panic in Late Victorian Britain.
April 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM